Dito Montiel filmed this version of his own book about growing up in the mean streets of Queens, New York in the 1980s. A successful LA based author returns home to visit his dying father and all those memories of his rough and tumble adolescence just coming flooding back..........of it's genre this is a superior movie. find out more...

Based on Crowe's own adventures as a teenage music journalist, Almost Famous tells the story of a 15-year-old boy who is complacently hired by Rolling Stone magazine to write an article on the fictional band Stillwater. As the band hits the road so does Rolling Stone's youngest reporter. find out more...

(Showing at the Cube Cinema, Thursday June 26th 2014): The definitive nostalgia movie. A multitude of budding stars made their debuts in this fond look at the innocence of teenage life in '62. Difficult decisions, sex, booze, amazing cars and a brilliant soundtrack make this a film which is touching, perceptive, very funny and hugely entertaining.

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Based on a true story; from the small town of Odessa The Permian High Panthers of 1988 were the most successful high school American football team in Texas history. This thoughtful tale depicts the immense pressure these young lads and their coach found themselves under in a town with nothing else to aspire to; like a "Springfield" devoid of wit, irony or indeed hope. 'Friday Night Lights' is a powerful, gripping drama with excellent performances and a refreshing lack of sporting schmaltz. find out more...

Cassandra and Rose are two young sisters living with their dysfunctional but loving family in a crumbling English castle. Little has changed since their novelist father failed to lift pen to paper over 12 years ago, but the arrival of two eligible young Americans throws not only the girls into turmoil but the very continuation of the family. I Capture The Castle is a classy adaptation of Dodie Smith's novel. find out more...

17-years-old Igby comes from a cinematically typical wealthy white American family; there's loads of dosh but everyone's dysfunctional at best and verging on psychopathic at worst. Igby maybe odd himself, but he knows true madness when he sees it, and he sees it in just about every member of his family. To this end the lad makes a concerted and sexually orientated bid for freedom, seduced and seducing women old enough to well know he's barely legal. Igby Goes Down is a deliciously fresh and slyl find out more...

This latest offering from John Duigan ("Sirens", "Flirting") is arguably his most substantial effort to date. A sardonic study of the friendship between an 11-year-old girl and a handyman (Sam Rockwell) more than twice her age, the film skilfully avoids degenerating into low-budget Lolita-ism. Indeed, Mischa Barton's emotionally starved schoolgirl, Devon, seems to be the only character oblivious to Rockwell's not unconsiderable physical attractions. An intelligent, engaging insight into small to find out more...

Holly and Marina are best friends living life to the hilt in 70's London. Marina is a wild and confused creature while Holly is a quieter individual who enjoys the narcissistic nature of her friend but as the relationship moves through the 80's she begins to feel smothered by the inequality of their relationship. Me Without You is a fine piece of British cinema. find out more...

George is a bully, but when he beats up 12 year old Sam he makes a fatal error of judgement. Sam's older brother decides to invite George on a boat trip down the river, the hidden agenda being to humiliate George the way he has humiliated so many others. What none of the perpetrators had expected however is that George is just a lost lonely kid, whose fear of rejection and not belonging has manifested itself through aggression and abuse. Having decided that George ain't so bad, the gang call off find out more...

Mona’s teenage life defines the word ‘crap’, not tragic, just without hope; her brother is the only family she has left and he’s found God in the same obsessively sociopathic way that he originally found booze, while a weekly hump in the back of a van with a married man actually constitutes fun rather than repetitive sexual abuse. Into this world wanders Tamsin, pretty, pretentious, spoilt but ignored and with a dangerous sense of mischief born of arrogance and naivety. An intense relationship b find out more...